Endless conveyer for grain headers and binders.



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A TTO/IN 5K5 INVENTOR.

J. L. KINER.

ENDLESS CONVEYER FOR GRAIN HEADERS AND BINDE'RS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 3, I 9I8.

Patented Feb. 18, 1919.

lVl-TNESSES:

J. L. KINER.

ENDLESS CONVEYER FOR GRAIN HEADERS AND BINDERS.

APPLICATION HLED MAY 3, l9l8- Patented Feb. 18, 1919.

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LVVEAVTOR. J sevh l? Kuwer IVITNESSES:

A TITO/M75113 JOSEPH I4. ER, OF GARDEN CITY, KANSAS.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Josnrn: L. Kmnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Garden City, in the county of Finney and State of Kansas, have. invented certain new and useful Improvements in Endless Conveyers for Grain-Headers and Binders; and I do hereby declare the followin clear, and exact description 0 the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in endless conveyers for use in connection with ain headers and binders, and the main o j ect of the invention is to provide endless conveyers which will operate smoothly and noiselessly and which will be durable and substantial in design.

A still further object of the invention is to provide. a new and novel construction of table for each endless conveyer.

With these and other objects in view as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises the various novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be more fully described hereinafter and afterward specifically claimed.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal sectional view through my improved construction of endless conveyers.

Fig. 2 represents a topplan view of the horizontal conveyer.

Fig. 3 represents a transverse sectional view taken on a plane indicated by the line 3-3 on Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 represents a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view taken on a plane indicated by the line 4-.4 on Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 represents a fragmentary side elevation of one end of the horizontal conveyer.

Fig. 6 represents a sectional view taken on a lane indicated by the line 66 on Fig. 2.

ig. 7 represents a detail side elevation of the upper end of the elevating conveyer casing.

Fig. 8 represents a vertical sectional view taken on a plane indicated by the line on Fig. t.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application and m 3, 1918. Serial in. 282,288.

Patented Feb.

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' approved embodiment thereof in the accomport the weight of panying drawings and will now proceed to fully describe the same, in connection with said drawings, in which T indicates the table of the horizontal endless composed of a number 1 and 2 suitably connected by bolts or rivets 3, as clearly shown in Fig. 10. The strip sections 1 are in the form of U-shaped channel strips, while the table strips 2 are of conveyer and is of table strip sections substantially inverted U-shape and are positioned between the channel strips 1. By increasing or decreasing the number of these strip sections, the conveyer table can be extended or decreased in width as desired, or to suit the purpose for which the particular conveyer is intended. Each channel strip 1 has a strip of wood 4 secured therein to form a bearing for theendless conveyer chains.

Shafts 5 and 6 are arranged at opposite ends of the conveyer table and are each mounted in tubular bearings 7 positioned between the sides of the table strips 2. Each of the tubular bearings 7 are held in position by a bracket arm 8 securely bolted to the under side of the table sections 2 by bolts 9. Sprocket wheels 10 are mounted on each of the shafts 5 and 6 in alinement with the channel strips 1 and endless chains 11 trained around them and through each channel strip 1. lhese chains are arranged to smoothly and noiselessly slide upon the wood bearing strips 4. Raddles 12 are secured transversely to the chains 11 so that their opposite ends terminate in the same vertical plane with the opposite sides of the table T. It is tobe understood from this construction that the wood strips 4 will supthe raddles so as to to slide or pass freely and the table strips 2, thus making run smoothly and noiselessly.

enable them smoothly over the conveyer By particular reference to Figs. 3 and 5,

it will be noted that 13 indicate metallic 16 in the side strips.

The elevating conveyers 17 and 18 are arranged in a casing 19' positioned adjacent the discharge end of the horizontal conveyer. Each of these conveyers 17 and 18 is substantially identical in construction with the horizontal conveyer. The lower shaft 20 of the conveyer 17 is journaled in the opposite sides of the casing 19, while the upper shaft 21 projects through elongated slots 22 in the opposite sides of the casing and are ournaled in adjustable brackets 23 mounted on the outside of the casing for a purpose which will presently appear. The shafts 24: and 25 of the upper conveyer 18 project-through slots 26 and 27 in the opposite sides of the casing, the slot 26 being of a width equal to the diameter of the shaft 24 so as to permit the latter to move only up and down, while the slot 27 is of a width greater than the diameter of the shaft 25 to not only permit of the latter shaft movin up and down but also of it being adjuste longitudinally of the casing.

The shafts 24 and 25 are adapted to be adjusted to and from the shafts 20 and 21 of the lower conveyer 17 through the medium of adjusting means arranged on opposite sides of the casing and at each end thereof. Each adjusting means comprises a casing 28 provided with laterally extending slotted ears 29 through which project adjusting bolts 30 carried by the casing. The lower end of the casing is rigidly connected to theadjacent lower bearing 23, and the latter is also provided with laterally extending slotted ears 31 through which project adjusting bolts 32 carried by the casing.

The opposite ends of the shafts 24 and 25 are each mounted in a bearing block 33 vertically movable within the casing 28. 34 is an adjustable hand screw threaded through the upper end of the casing 28 and provided at its lower end with a head 35 rotatably connected with said screw. A suspension spring 36 has lts opposite ends attached respectively to the bearing block 33 and the head 35 and serves to yieldingly support the conveyer shaft.

By this construction it will be apparent that the upper elevating conveyer 18 is yieldingly suspended in superimposed relation with the lower elevating conveyer 17, so that as the grain is conveye from the h rizontal jacent the opposite sides of the casingI aaaae'ze conveyer and subsequently discharged into the opening between the lower and upper elevating conveyers, said upper elevating conveyer can yield.- upwardly should the grain have a tendency to become choked between it and the lower elevating conveyer. It will also be noted that by providing means for adj ustin the bearing 23 and casing 28 longitudina ly of the casing 19 that any .lack that may occur within the conveyer belts may be readily taken up.

Each of the elevatin conveyers 17 and 18 is provided with a ta le identical in construction with the table T of the horizontal conveyer, therefore the same reference numerals applied to the latter will apply to this last-mentioned construction.

In order to prevent the grain from being scattered and wasted, I have provided one end of the horizontal conveyer with a curved shield 37 which projects supported by the bearing sleeves 7 positioned on the shaft 5. The opposite end of the horizontal conveyer 1s provided with an apron 38, the sides of which extend upwardlyl gad o the elevating conveyers, while its ottom portion 39 extends transversely beneath the intervening space between the adjacent ends of the horizontal conveyer and the lower elevating conveyer and serves to catch any grain that may fall therebetween.

While I have described the principle of operation of the invention, together with what I consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to such changes in construction and arrangement of parts may be made when desired without departing from thespirit of the in have it understood that upwardly and is vention as are within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. An elevating conveyer comprising an open ended casing, a pair of spaced superposed endless conveyers disposed longitudinally of the casing and journaled throu h the sides thereof, supporting brackets or the opposite ends of said conveyers, means for adjustably mounting said brackets on the sides of the casing, and means carried by each bracket for adjusting one of said endless conveyers with respect to the other.

2. In an elevating conveyer, a conveyer table consisting of a plurality of channel strips and table strips substantially U-shaped in cross sections, means for detachably connecting said strips together, anti-rattle strips mounted in said channel strips, bearing brackets supported by the oposite ends of said table strips, shafts journaled at oppome ane sprocket and through said channel strips, raddles attached to said chains to move on said conveyer table, and means at the oppc-t sit-e sides of the table for holding said raddles in position during their passage over the table.

In testimony whereof I have signed my J SEPH L KINER.

Witnesses:

FRED S. DUNN,- WARREN A. Gmsom. 

